8 Spirulina Recipes to Cheer Up Your Tastebuds

You know all about the various health benefits of spirulina. You’ve gotten yourself some spirulina powder. You’ve mixed it with water and…you’re still trying to down the nasty concoction.

‘Cause let’s face it – as wonderful as spirulina is for your health, it’s not so friendly to your tastebuds. And no matter how much you keep repeating all the awesome benefits of spirulina over and over in your head, it ain’t convincing your traumatized tastebuds.

So how do you get this spirulina powder inside of you so you can actually start experiencing its benefits? Well, there are ways – tasty ways.

We’ve listed the best of these spirulina recipes here, collected from some of the savviest spirulina chefs from around the Internet. Bon appetit!

1. Tropical Superfood Smoothie Bowl

Let’s just take a moment away from reality and dream of white sand beaches, warm breezes, and cool ocean water, all while enjoying this super healthy, thick and creamy green tropical smoothie bowl filled with pineapple, coconut water, spinach, and banana.

Directions:
Add all ingredients into your Vitamix/Blendtec or regular ole’ blender and mix until thick and creamy. You can adjust the amount of coconut water and ice to make it thicker or thinner, depending on how you enjoy it, I like it with the amounts listed above. The desired consistency is like soft serve ice cream.

TIP: This is a meal in a bowl, if you’d like this to be lower in calories or lower in sugar, simply add half of the amounts of fruits to your liking.

What about the superfoods? This smoothie uses spirulina and baobab powder, both of which are delicious and nutrient dense superfoods for this tropical smoothie. If you’ve never tried baobab before it tastes similar to a citrus fruit with bright flavors and it’s even orange in color. More importantly than it’s great taste, is the nutrition profile. Baobab contains heaps of vitamin C, magnesium, potassium, and calcium. Couple the vitamin C found in baobab with the iron in spirulina and you have a better chance of increasing the iron that’s absorbed in the body.

2. Totally Vegan Spirulina Ice Cream

Have you had vegan ice cream before? If you haven’t you are truly missing out. This one is to die for. So yummy and easy to make. No machine required. You could use one but if you don’t have one just freeze and thaw the ice cream for 10 minutes before serving. It’s also a perfect treat for anyone following gluten-free or vegan diets.

1. In a blender, mix all the ingredients except the cacao nibs. If you don’t have a blender you can use a wire whisk to combine the ingredients.

2. Transfer the mixture to a bowl. Cover it and place it in the freezer for at least 3-4 hours. Before serving let the mixture thaw for 20 minutes to be able to scoop it out with a medium to large cookie scoop.

Superfood fact: Considered a complete protein, spirulina contains all 9 essential amino acids that our bodies need on a daily basis. These essential amino acids must be obtained through food since we cannot synthesize them ourselves.

1. In a blender, blend the wet ingredients until smooth. Add a touch of water, if needed, to facilitate blending.

2. Chop almonds in food processor (keeping as chunky as you like your granola) and transfer to a large bowl. Pulse the pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and walnuts (pecans) in food processor till desired size and transfer to bowl with almonds. Transfer rinsed buckwheat groats to large bowl with other nuts/seeds (no need to process them!)

3. Pour the wet mixture on top of nuts/ seeds/ groats and mix well.

4. Spread the granola on teflex sheets on dehydrator tray (I usually get 4 trays out of this recipe) and dehydrate at 115 degrees for about 6 hours. Flip the granola off the teflex sheets onto mesh tray and put back in to dehydrate for another 8-10 hours (depending on humidity and temperature in house) until granola is crunchy. (*Granola will get crunchier once in fridge.*)

If using oven version (not raw) – Bake on a parchment covered baking sheet at 250 degrees for 45 minutes-1hour. Every 15 minutes, flip the mixture. Watch carefully towards end not to let it burn! Let cool 15 minutes before breaking apart into pieces.

5. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container in the fridge. The granola will harden in the fridge.

Raw granola is expensive if you buy it at the market and specialty stores (it can be $9 for a small bag – I DON’T THINK SO!). Making your own is so much cheaper and healthier because you have the ability to put in it what you want.

5. Spirulina Protein Power Bites

Want quick, healthy snacks that are easy to take on-the-go? You can make these adorable little bites of goodness using spirulina.

Spirulina has a soft nutty flavor that is barely noticeable when blended with bright delicious flavors. Delicious, I promise! And spirulina newbies, just start small. Add a tiny pinch or spirulina and work from there! You want to eat this superfood…!

8. Spirulina Pesto

Make a different kind of pesto: spirulina pesto. This pesto is quick to prepare and is an easy way to add the nutritional benefits of spirulina to a meal.

After growing up a perpetually pudgy kid, Jessica discovered real food - and her waistline shortly afterward. When she's not crafting concoctions in the kitchen, she spends her free time writing about food, making her own deodorant, watching sci-fi, doing headstands, and looking for gluten free food that doesn't suck.

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